PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hytten, F. E.
TI  - The renal excretion of nutrients in pregnancy
AID  - 10.1136/pgmj.49.575.625
DP  - 1973 Sep 01
TA  - Postgraduate Medical Journal
PG  - 625--629
VI  - 49
IP  - 575
4099  - http://pmj.bmj.com/content/49/575/625.short
4100  - http://pmj.bmj.com/content/49/575/625.full
SO  - Postgrad Med J1973 Sep 01; 49
AB  - A feature of normal pregnancy is a huge increase in the excretion of nutrients in urine. Glycosuria is commonplace, and about half of all healthy pregnant women excrete more than when not pregnant. Amounts in excess of 1 g/24 hr are common, and excretion is characteristically intermittent with little apparent relation to plasma levels. Amino acid excretion is also raised four or five times by late pregnancy, with a characteristic pattern for different amino acids, and folate and other water soluble vitamins are similarly squandered. The mechanisms are not understood.